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O papel dos Assistentes Operacionais (AO), nas escolas, envolve um progressivo aumento das suas competências que cada vez parecem ser mais abrangentes na intervenção junto dos alunos. É com estes que, muitas vezes, os alunos parecem ter um contacto mais estreito, sendo frequentes as relações de maior intimidade e confidencialidade. Por outro lado, estes profissionais são, frequentemente, intervenientes em diversas situações que colaboram na facilitação e na promoção do processo educativo. A partir desta constatação identificou-se a problemática “De que modo os assistentes operacionais são determinantes para o processo educativo dos alunos?”cujo objetivo é compreender melhor a real potencialidade da atividade profissional dos AO e o seu contributo enquanto membros de uma comunidade escolar. Para o desenvolvimento deste projeto utilizou-se três inquéritos por questionário, em que se procurou conhecer a opinião dos AO, professores e alunos, na Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis, sobre a classe profissional dos AO quanto ao grau conhecimento sobre os direitos e deveres dos AO, à perceção sobre as competências dos AO e ainda face ao desempenho dos AO em relação a diferentes situações. Pela análise dos resultados obtidos em termos das medidas estatísticas variância e mediana, conclui-se que os professores e alunos consideram que os AO são fundamentais para o desenvolvimento do ano letivo, apesar de não agirem em conformidade com isso (não lhes atribuem o valor que reconhecem que eles têm). Os Assistentes Operacionais são, assim, “um capital humano de importância fundamental no bom funcionamento do sistema educativo” (Portaria n.º 29 de 2015).
Este estudo teve como público-alvo os AO enquanto profissionais da comunidade escolar da EASR. Seria interessante estudar esta problemática a nível nacional dada a escassez de estudos no nosso país sobre estes profissionais. Desta forma seria possível caraterizar e recolher informação de forma mais concreta e mais alargada, tendo em conta as diferentes realidades das escolas portuguesas.
The role of Operational Assistants (OA) in schools involves a progressive increase in their skills which progressively appear to be more comprehensive in intervention with students. It is with these that students often seem to have closer contact, with relationships of greater intimacy and confidentiality being frequent. On the other hand, these professionals are often interveners in various situations that collaborate in facilitating and promoting the educational process. From this finding, the problem identified was “How are operational assistants determining the students' educational process?” whose objective is to better understand the real potentiality of the Operational Assistants’ professional activity and its contribution as members of a school community. For the development of this project we used three inquiries’ surveys, which sought to know the opinion of the AO, teachers and students, at Soares dos Reis Artistic School, about the Operational Assistants’ professional class regarding the degree of knowledge about rights and duties, the perception of competences and the performance of Operational Assistants in different situations. From the results analysis obtained in terms of the statistical measures variance and median, it is concluded that teachers and students consider that the Operational Assistants are fundamental for the development of the school year, although they do not act accordingly (they do not give them the value that recognize that they have). Operational Assistants are thus “a human resources, with fundamental importance to the educational system functioning” (Decree Order nr. 29 of 2015). This study was aimed at Operational Assistants as professionals from the EASR school community. It would be interesting to study this problem at national level given the scarcity of studies in our country on these professionals. In this way it would be possible to characterize and collect information in a more concrete and broader way, taking into account the different realities in Portuguese schools.
The role of Operational Assistants (OA) in schools involves a progressive increase in their skills which progressively appear to be more comprehensive in intervention with students. It is with these that students often seem to have closer contact, with relationships of greater intimacy and confidentiality being frequent. On the other hand, these professionals are often interveners in various situations that collaborate in facilitating and promoting the educational process. From this finding, the problem identified was “How are operational assistants determining the students' educational process?” whose objective is to better understand the real potentiality of the Operational Assistants’ professional activity and its contribution as members of a school community. For the development of this project we used three inquiries’ surveys, which sought to know the opinion of the AO, teachers and students, at Soares dos Reis Artistic School, about the Operational Assistants’ professional class regarding the degree of knowledge about rights and duties, the perception of competences and the performance of Operational Assistants in different situations. From the results analysis obtained in terms of the statistical measures variance and median, it is concluded that teachers and students consider that the Operational Assistants are fundamental for the development of the school year, although they do not act accordingly (they do not give them the value that recognize that they have). Operational Assistants are thus “a human resources, with fundamental importance to the educational system functioning” (Decree Order nr. 29 of 2015). This study was aimed at Operational Assistants as professionals from the EASR school community. It would be interesting to study this problem at national level given the scarcity of studies in our country on these professionals. In this way it would be possible to characterize and collect information in a more concrete and broader way, taking into account the different realities in Portuguese schools.
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Assistentes Operacionais Escola Processo Educativo Operational Assistants School Educational Process
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Instituto Politécnico do Porto. Escola Superior de Educação